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Waiting for a new dawn at DelhiWaiting for a new dawn at Delhi
Joe Bates
12-May-2008
It has been a steep learning curve for Alpha Asia’s new joint-venture retail operation at Delhi Indira Ghandi International airport. But, as managing director Paul Topping tells Joe Bates, the operator is making the best of a bad situation in the hope of better things to come
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Retail challenges don’t get much tougher than trying to sell luxury brands from a building site. Yet this is effectively the situation facing Alpha Asia’s fledgling joint-venture duty-free business at
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